Shipping Out a Canadian-Made Tech Refresh Case Study

Challenge

A customer approached Curtiss-Wright with requirements to build a maritime system with as much Canadian content as possible. Their system – a ship-to-ship communications package – contained aging hardware. Their previous vendor could not supply this program with replacement boards, and as our customer was interested in chasing new opportunities, they wanted to update their product.

Since their ship-to-to-ship communications system requirements would not be changing, they needed the new hardware to fit into the same SWaP-constrained area occupied by their existing hardware. They also required backward compatible connectivity and functionality with their currently installed systems. What’s more, they needed to find a supplier who could support their program for another 20+ years.